Lamiaspis

{{Short description|Extinct genus of jawless fishes}}

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| fossil_range = {{fossil range|Early Devonian}}

| image = Lamiaspis longiripa.jpg

| image_caption = Artist's impression

| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Chordata

| classis = †Pteraspidomorphi

| subclassis = †Heterostraci

| ordo = †Pteraspidiformes

| familia =

| genus = †Lamiaspis

| genus_authority = Ilyes & Elliott, 1994

| species = †L. longiripa

| binomial = †Lamiaspis longiripa

| binomial_authority = Ilyes & Elliott, 1994

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Lamiaspis longiripa is an extinct pteraspid heterostracan agnathan vertebrate found in marine strata of Early Devonian Nevada.{{cite journal |author1=Robert R. Ilyes |author2=David K. Elliott |year=1994 |title=New Early Devonian pteraspidids (Agnatha, Heterostraci) from east-central Nevada |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=68 |issue=4 |pages=878–892 |doi=10.1017/S0022336000026330}}[http://www.ubio.org/NZ/detail.php?uid=320204&d=1 uBio: Lamiaspis] (accessed 13 February 2016)[https://www.gbif.org/species/4842518 GBIF: Lamiaspis Ilyes & Elliott, 1994] (accessed 13 February 2016)

The generic name translates as "shark shield", in reference to its shark-like hydrodynamic shape.